Improvement in fastening handles to plated ware



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY G. SMITH AND E. MINER POMEROY, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONN.

IMPROVEMENT IN EASTENING HANDLES TO PLATED WARE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,620, dated May 8, 1866.

Figure l is a perspective View of a cup or vessel with a handle attached, showing the outer ends or heads of the screws by which the handle is attached to the cup. Fig. 2 is a section of the same cut vertically through the center, showing both the male and the termale screws and the entire character of the fastening.

.Our improvement consists in attaching the handles, feet, and all other projecting parts, of gold, gilt, silver, plated britannia, 85e., vessels, such as cups, pitchers, tea-pots, coffee-urns, and all other articles which are circular in their cross-section, (so far as the body ot the article is concerned,) by means ot' screws, so that the article may be burnished or finished in alathe before the handles, &c., are attached, and so that the handles, Sac., may be removed for reburnishing, &c., when necessary.

We make the body of the cup, pitcher, or other article in the usual way, as represented at A, Fig. l, and indicated in section in-Fig. 2, except that we make as many holes in it as there will be screws needed to secure the handle, Ste. In each of these holes, after the inside is linished, we lit plugs, with the outer ends tapped, as female screws, with the heads or buttons left solid on the inside of the vessel, as represented at a and c, Fig. 2, and we solder them rmly and water-tight in theirplaces, so that the outer ends Will exactly correspond with the outer or external surface of the cup or other vessel, as is represented in section in Fig. 2. We then burnish or tinish the outside ot the cup or other vessel in a lathe, after which I we attach the handle, or Iany other part which projects beyond the periphery or convex surface ot' the cylindrical or circular part of any portion of its longitudinal extent, by means ot male screws, as represented at b and b, Figs. l and 2.

We make the head or button part of the female screw of silver or white metal, or some other substance to correspond with the color of the inside of the vessel, and that will not be corroded or be acted on by any substance which the vessel may be used to dip, or to hold, or contain; or else we plate it.

The male screws we make of' iron or any other suitable material, and have the heads capped or plated with silver, or inishedin any other way which fancy or the state ot' the market may suggest.

This method is equally applicable for at-V taching feet or any externals, parts, or orna ments which would be in the Way of burnishing or tinishing in a lathe, so that they may be put on after the surface has been burnished or n'nished, and be. removed when it is desirable to burnish or iinish theln again after being worn or inj ured.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Attachinghandles and other projecting parts to cups, pitchers, and other analogous vessels made ot' plated or solid metal by means ot' male and female screws, when the screws are made and itted in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and set forth.

`HENRY e. SMITH.

MINEE PoMEEoY.

Witnesses E. D. CAsrrELow, R. FITZGERALD, 

